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Southern integration must result from non-violent action, the Reverend James Lawson commented last night at a meeting sponsored by the Lunch Counter Integration Committee. Lawson recently gained national prominence by his participation in the Nashville sit-ins, which brought his expulsion from Vanderbilt University...
Stressing that the movement for integration uses non-violent policies, Lawson indicated that its leaders will not stop their agitation, demonstrations, and boycotts until a transformed South is created...
...bitter fight that has split Nashville's Vanderbilt University since the expulsion of Negro Divinity Student James M. Lawson Jr. for promoting sit-in demonstrations finally simmered down last week. After many abortive efforts. Chancellor Harvie Branscomb arranged a compromise that brought a truce, though an uneasy one to the campus. Lawson, who is now finishing his last three courses at Boston University, may earn his B.D. degree from Vanderbilt by either transferring credits from Boston or by taking a written exam this summer. The school has already replaced Divinity School Dean J. Robert Nelson, whose initial resignation touched...
...week's end Divinity Student Lawson was unsure whether or not to accept Vanderbilt's offer. But nine of the twelve faculty men had already withdrawn their resignations. Said Chancellor Branscomb: "This matter is now closed, and except for necessary details, will not be further discussed...
What pained Nelson was the fact that Boston University divinity school promptly accepted Lawson, who expects to get his degree there this summer. "I feel a great sense of tragedy," said Nelson. "This happened just when we had reached prominence as one of the half-dozen best divinity schools in the U.S." His job was offered to Dean Walter J. Harrelson of the University of Chicago divinity school. If Harrelson accepts, it may be under certain conditions that might even include the readmission of Lawson and the retention of Nelson as a professor. Whatever the outcome. Chancellor Branscomb is adamant...